#maggienelson

[dk-thrive]

…especially since good writing, not to mention good thinking, takes so much goddamn time?

— Maggie Nelson, Like Love: Essays and Conversations. (Graywolf Press, April 2, 2024)

[vintagebooksdesign]

V&A ILLUSTRATION AWARDS 2018

Suzanne Dean’s illustration for Bluets was announced as the winner in the Book Cover Design category at this years V&A Illustration Awards. The book and the original illustrations are currently on display at the museum.

To read more about the awards, click here.

[dk-thrive]

Not a day goes by when I don’t feel grateful that my formative years were all lived without the internet.

— Maggie Nelson, Like Love: Essays and Conversations. (Graywolf Press, April 2, 2024)

[dk-thrive]

It’s that instead of worrying over “too much of a good thing” in a world overfull with shitty things, we might instead ensure that there are too many good things, too.

— Maggie Nelson, Like Love: Essays and Conversations. (Graywolf Press, April 2, 2024)

[dk-thrive]

“Memoirs so often beg the question, “Why would you want to tell me all this?”

— Critic of 2012 New Yorker piece on Les Goddesses, in Maggie Nelson’s “Like Love: Essays and Conversations.” (Graywolf Press, April 2, 2024)

[dk-thrive]

Maybe part of the fatigue (and potential bulimia) of the internet comes from knowing that ‘everything’ is available to us at the touch of a finger. It’s all there to read instantaneously, or it can be on your doorstep in two days.

— Moyra Davey, in Maggie Nelson’s from “A LIFE, A FACE, A GAZE. Conversation with Moyra Davey” in Like Love: Essays and Conversations. (Graywolf Press, April 2, 2024)

[dk-thrive]

By filming yourself walking around your house and talking about literature and theory and your family, you’re giving us this remarkably generous self-portrait—of what you think about most, what you read, your own artistic journey, and perhaps most of all, your body and voice moving through space in the most banal but also intimate and compelling of ways.

— Maggie Nelson, from “A LIFE, A FACE, A GAZE. Conversation with Moyra Davey” in Like Love: Essays and Conversations. (Graywolf Press, April 2, 2024)

[dk-thrive]

When you have generosity toward others, self-love is possible, or is it vice versa?

— Moyra Davey, in Maggie Nelson’s from “A LIFE, A FACE, A GAZE. Conversation with Moyra Davey” in Like Love: Essays and Conversations. (Graywolf Press, April 2, 2024)